Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-15
WINTER WEATHER.
A December Sunday in
California.
FAIR ANAHEIM VIEWS.
Rich Plains. SnOw-Capped Noun
tains and Eternal Sunshine
all Combined.
FAIR ANAHEIM VIEWS.

A Herald representative who usu-
ally works all days in the week, in
Guiding Sunday, and all weeks in the
year, including midsummer and the
Christmas holidays, was in great
luck last Saturday night. AT least so
he considered himself when told he
might have "day OUT on Sunday.
Thinking where he should go to
squander his one holiday, Anaheim
came into his head as Il pleasant place
to spend a day. Getting his Saturday
nights work well up, AID enli-ting
the interest of collaboration to do
the rest, away he he'd on the late
train of Saturday. He found a solid
train Of four coaches full of people all
agog for the south end of the county.
AT ANAHEIM.
Transferring himself from the train
to the street ear, the newspaper pleas
ure seeker found about twenty-five
other tourists, commercial and other
vie, all bound with him for the
Planters hotel to interview mine
host Mason and his cook, especially
the cook. Next morning, refreshed
AMI ready for the fray, the PENCIL
:aaher awoke, betimes he did, and
s wing ueyforIped his ablutions, ex-
ternal and il, ssfna'--the latter il not in
a cask OF maln:~e ytt OUTSIDE oi
som thing pleasant--~ sVePpeu ae
last into the open air.
GLORIOUS MORNING.
The warm glow OF 60 den sunshine
filed the sky and air, and bathed the |
land as genial as the loveliest day in
June. The birds were all making the
spac4 sonorous with glad so gs, The
breezes Of the zephyr's gentsost toucn
set the leaves of the orange groves
just remble, and tie golden spheres
like the tabled app es Of the Hesper-
ides, glisten-d like gold amid the
rich waxy sheen OF the foliage.
RICH ANAHEIM. ---... .~-.
Far southwark spread the broad,
rich plain embracing vineyards, or
ange groves, rich past ures, orchards
the most fertile and varied in its
resources in the world. Some fifteen
miles away the Pacific lay pulsating
and cleaning in the golden sunlight,
from his broad breast come these
gentle winds loaded. to repletion wi h
life-giving ozone, pure, invigorating,
health restoring, youth-giving, as
would hav been the springs OF eter-
nal youth, had Ponce de Leon
been able to find them.
THE EVERLASTING HILLS.
All around the north side OF the
valley the great mountains rose TO
grand heights, and on their wofld-old
brows they lifted to the skies their
SHOWS of countless years. The run
lit up their ridges with such glorious
az the imagination pic
lures on the white heights OF Para
die. The shadows slept in the val
legs as peacefully as Bunyon's pill
grim saw them on the "Delectable
in his progress to Heaven.
Indeed a more beautiful prospect
never stretched before the eyes
of man han the landscape which
lay all around the ricn old mother
colony" on the day in question. No
spot even in this semi tropic paradise
can boast of any more fascinating pic
Iure than was there presented. The
rains had started the grasses. The
orange groves we're washed cle,n of
dust, the roads were hard and clean,
the temperature was of that abso-
utely perfect degree wnich makes
lie seem worth living for. Lowell
asks: .--
"And what so perfect as day in
June."
The answer is last Sunday at Ana
helm was as perfect as any day trat
aver rose out of the night in the ''leafy
month of June"
NOTES OF PROGRESS.